LYNX-DEV feedback on form numbering

[Laura Eaves]

I know Bill Schiavo is currently subscribed to
lynx-dev, but he sent me this feedback privately
which I thought I'd post.  (Hope you don't mind Bill...)
--le

> From address@hidden Wed Apr 30 21:31:43 1997
> Subject: Re: lynx patch for numbered form fields
>
> Hello again.  I finally got an opportunity to get the latest code and
> patch.  Indeed, the bugs I reported are fixed and now it is quite useable
> and in my opinion, your patch makes those forms with their pop-ups and
> option lists much easier to deal with.  
>
> After I discovered that the bugs I reported were fixed, I really tried to
> break it.  I Visited lots of pages with lots of forms including
> http://www.shareware.com, http://www.excite.com,
> http://www.altavista.digital.com, and http://home.netscape.com to name
> just a few and it worked exceedingly well and so did the 123g command.  
>
> Thanks a lot.  I hope your patch makes in into the "official" release of
> lynx, but in the event that it doesn't, I will incorporate it into my
> copy. 
>
> Now that the code is a bit more stable, I am going to get my friends to
> test it and get back to you with their results.
>...

> From address@hidden Wed Apr 30 21:35:15 1997
> Subject: Re: lynx patch for numbered form fields
>...
> Sorry about that.  Actually, That's perhaps the most useful thing about the
> whole thing.  It's nice to be able to go directly to a given text entry
> field on a form, but your patch makes it easier for me to tell which
> option(s) are selected without reading the whole screen which very time
> consuming with speech.
>
> I hope this helps!
>
> Bye.

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